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yumwat 0.4.3

Wat

When I use yum to update my system or install new packages, I sometimes spot a
package I am unfamiliar with, such as the mesa-dri-filesystem package I saw
the other day. In some graphical extensions of yum, a brief discription of the
package is listed under each package name. I figured I’d check out some docs on
writing yum plugins, to see if I could display a description under each package
name in the CLI updater. Then the Internet was like, “Yo, each yum plugin is a
single file, written in the Python programming language”, and after I cleaned
up my brain which had EXPLODED out of my HEAD I made this repo and now we are
on a science adventure.

License

GNU GPL v3+.

Installing

Installation is easy! From the project directory (where this file is),
do the following.

Shell Script

I have written a bit of a shell script that does the above installation
for you. It is install.sh, and will probably require root privs, like
so: sudo ./install.sh. Currently, it does not do step 3 below,
so make sure to do that yourself.

Manual Installation

Add the line pluginpath=/usr/lib/yum-plugins to the file
/etc/yum.conf.

Timid mode

The yumwat.conf file contains the line timid=0. If timid is
set to 0, timid mode is off, and yumwat will print output unless
the --nowat option is used with yum. If timid is set to 1,
timid mode is on, and yumwat will not print output unless the
--wat option is used with yum.

See below for how to easily enable or disable timid mode.

Enabling and Disabling

Enable yumwat – sudo /usr/lib/yum-plugins/yumwat.py enable

Disable yumwat – sudo /usr/lib/yum-plugins/yumwat.py disable

Enable timid mode – sudo /usr/lib/yum-plugins/yumwat.py timid

Disable timid mode – sudo /usr/lib/yum-plugins/yumwat.py assertive

Uninstalling

Easier than installation! We just need to make sure you remove the
generated bytecode file, too. You can do this by running the uninstall
script packaged with this plugin with root privs: